Crash (South Korean band)
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History
Crash was formed in 1991 with the lineup of Ahn Heung-Chan (vocals, bass guitar), Jung Yong-Wook (drums) and Yoon Doo-Byung (guitar). They were also the first Korean band provoking slam dance and stage divingStage diving
Stage diving is the act of leaping from a concert stage onto the crowd below. It is often the precursor to crowd surfing.Initially seen as confrontational and extreme, stage diving has become common at hardcore punk and thrash metal performances. Many musicians have made stage diving a part of...
in their concert.
In 1993, they recorded their debut album Endless Supply of Pain with an internationally famous death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
producer Colin Richardson
Colin Richardson
Colin Richardson is a British record producer, mixer and recording engineer. He has worked on over 100 albums, and is most frequently associated with heavy metal and its subgenres such as:*Anathema*As I Lay Dying*Behemoth*Bullet for My Valentine...
with whom the band will collaborate in their third and fourth album again. Endless Supply of the Pain was a critical and commercial success with more than 80,000 copies sold in 1993.
Ahn Heung-chan has also provided his backing vocals on two hardcore rap tracks of third album of Korean pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
superstars, Seo Taiji & Boys.
After a more death metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
-oriented second album To Be or Not to Be, original guitarist Yoon was fired from the band. Their third album, Experimental State of Fear
Experimental State of Fear
Experimental state of fear is the third album by the South Korean thrash metal band Crash, released on 1997.-Track listing:# "Breath/Suffer" - 4:16# "Another weakeness" - 4:28# "Machinery" - 4:01# "Rats" - 4:36# "무상" - 4:39...
, was recorded in 1997 with two new guitarists, taking a more experimental approach, with the introduction of an industrial
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
aspect to their thrash sound.
As of today, Crash has released five full-length albums. They participated in the D.R.I.
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles is a thrash metal/crossover thrash band from the United States that formed in Houston, in 1982. The band currently comprises founding members, vocalist Kurt Brecht and guitarist Spike Cassidy, as well as drummer Rob Rampy and bassist Harald Oimoen.D.R.I...
tribute album We Don't Need Society with a cover version of "Acid Rain" as well as a Stormtroopers of Death
Stormtroopers of Death
Stormtroopers of Death, better known as S.O.D., was a crossover thrash band formed in New York in 1985. They are commonly credited as being among the first bands to fuse hardcore punk with thrash metal into a style sometimes called "crossover thrash." The song "March of the S.O.D.," from their 1985...
tribute album with a cover of "Sargent D & the S.O.D.".
On August 10, 2010, Crash released their 6th album.
Current members
- Ahn Heung-chan − vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
, bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(1992−present) - Jung Yong-Wook − drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
(1992−present) - Yoon Doo-Byung − guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
(1992−1996, 2008−present)
Former members
- Lee Sung-Soo − guitar (1996−1999)
- Oh Young-Sang − guitar (1999−2002)
- Kim Yu-Sung − synthesizer (1999−2002)
- Lim Sang-Mook − guitar (2002−2007)
- Ha Jae-Yong - guitar (1996−2010)
Discography
- Endless Supply of Pain (1993)
- To Be or Not to Be (1995)
- Experimental State of FearExperimental State of FearExperimental state of fear is the third album by the South Korean thrash metal band Crash, released on 1997.-Track listing:# "Breath/Suffer" - 4:16# "Another weakeness" - 4:28# "Machinery" - 4:01# "Rats" - 4:36# "무상" - 4:39...
(1997) - Terminal Dream Flow (2000)
- The Massive CrushThe Massive CrushThe Massive Crush is the fifth album by the South Korean thrash metal band Crash, released in 2003.-Track listing:# "Whirlwind Struggle" – 4:23# "비아" – 3:48# "Psychedelic Storm" – 3:54# "Discipline" – 2:58# "Moss " – 4:56...
(2003) - The Paragon of AnimalsThe Paragon of Animals (album)It is the 6th album produced by South Korean thrash metal band Crash, released on itunes on August 10, 2010. A music video for Crashday has been made and it is available to watch on Youtube.-Track listing:#Crashday 5:00#Ruination Effect 5:31...
(2010)
External links
- Crash - Official website
- Crash at Encyclopaedia MetallumEncyclopaedia MetallumEncyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music...